Lady Gypsy

YouTube

OK then, let’s see. That’s my feeling about the return of David Brent, the character that Ricky Gervais invented for the original version of “The Office,’’ the groundbreaking series that spawned an “Office’’ franchise and popularized the mockumentary format on TV. Gervais’s Brent is back with a music video called “Lady Gypsy,’’ which you can easily find online on YouTube. It’s advance promotion for a full album of Brent songs and a movie called “David Brent: Life on the Road,’’ which premieres in the UK in August and will be on Netflix next year. Brent, the cringeworthy general manager at Wernham Hogg Paper Company, fancied himself a musician, and now we get to see him pursuing that dream. The video is fairly funny, a spoof of overblown folk ballads, with Brent in the woods recalling the day when he was 18 and lost his virginity to a woman who was either a heather saleswoman or a hooker, it’s comically unclear.

Angie Tribeca

Monday at 9 p.m., TBS

In order to like this Rashida Jones (pictured) series, which was created by Steve Carell and Nancy Walls Carell, you have to have an abiding respect for really good bad puns. Now in its second season, it’s a spoof of “Law & Order’’-like crime procedurals, and it has the flip tone of movies like “Naked Gun.’’ The character names include Lieutenant Chet Atkins, Jean Naté, Fisher Price, John and Jane Dough, Sergeant Pepper, and my favorite, Monica Scholls, who is, of course, a doctor. And there is an ongoing slew of guest stars, including Adam Scott, James Franco, Bill Murray, Jon Hamm, and Lisa Kudrow. If you’re able to turn off your brain, “Angie Tribeca’’ can provide a bit of silly fun.

Crashletes

Weeknights at 7 p.m., Nickelodeon

If you watch this new blooper series, two things will be clear to you. 1. Rob Gronkowski is not a natural. 2. Gronk is a natural at not being a natural. Let me explain. The show, a “Tosh.0’’ of people slamming into people, places, and things, features the Patriots tight end as one of three hosts. Gronk, Stevie Nelson, and Brandon Broady introduce videos of amateur sports fails, and then, because the clips are on the Internet, which means we can throw stones without feeling badly, they shame them with witticisms and slo-mo replays. Nelson and Broady are slick professionals, and their comic asides are easy, fast, and lightly sarcastic. But Gronk, he’s a lug. He’s like a giant kid who doesn’t know what to do with his hands. His clumsy comic asides get caught in his mouth. His timing is consistently a half-beat off. But like the honey badger, Gronk don’t care. And that makes him kind of fun to watch. He doesn’t appear to be trying to be professional about this whole hosting business; he just drops the clunkers, maybe raises his eyebrows, puts his hand on his belly, gives a winning smile, looks at the wrong camera. He’s fine with it all. The guy exudes bro confidence, and the assumption that we will watch him even when he looks stupid.

Orange Is the New Black

Netflix

If I could spend time with one member of the “Orange’’ ensemble, I’d take Natasha Lyonne’s Nicky, she of the massive mop of blondish hair. Nicky may be fuzzy, but she sure isn’t warm, and that’s fine with me. A verbal quick-draw, she delivers the kind of smart, sarcastic lines that make me laugh out loud every time. She has a big heart, for sure, even if you have to deal with her defensive humor to get to it. Nicky’s struggle with addiction is hard to watch, but it ultimately makes her even more sympathetic. Through Nicky, and the powerful work of Lyonne, “Orange’’ has been able to show the intensity of self-destructive heroin cravings, and the strength it takes to fight them.

MATTHEW GILBERT